and then where the state that successfully challenged doma. so to see that couple today, alex, from north hampton, massachusetts, and so many lawyers, advocates, mary donato, among them, who championed this cause for so long. to see them today and to see the president sign this. and to see, also, alex, a significant move by congress. remember, this is a bipartisan rejection of threats to freedoms and protections that really are in place as a result of the bergerfeld decision, it's an important day and i'm so happy. >> as you should be. i want to talk about who voted for and who voted against it, right. in 1996, the bipartisan support to deny same-sex couples the right to marry, that was bipartisan. i think it was 32 democrats and 53 republicans voted for doma. cut to today, when we're enshrining the right to gay marriage federally, the only people that voted against that were republicans. 37 of them. now, it is bipartisan, but the fact is that the majority of the republican caucus voted against this in the upper chamber. what do you think acco